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Characters Pt. 2
Basic Facts Pt. 2
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Narrator of the story
Who is Ponyboy Curtis
100

"Stay Gold"

Who is Johnny Cade

100

What is the point of view?

First-Person Narrative

100

Tough, cold, mean. Went to jail at the age of 10

Who is Dallas (Dally)

100
This is the decade during which The Outsiders is set
What are the 1960s
200

Red-headed Soc who is a spy for the Greasers

Who is Cherry Valance

200

"Ponyboy, sometimes you just don't use your head."

Who is Darry C.

200
Ponyboy gets jumped in front of one in the first chapter
What is the movie theater
200

Jumped Ponyboy and Johnny, was killed by Johnny.

Who is Bob

200

Why is Ponyboy different from the rest?

Ponyboy doesn't like violence. He's very book smart.

300

A character who is always frightened and abused

Who is Johnny Cade

300

"We gotta get even with the Socs. For Johnny"

Who is Dallas W.

300

Where did Ponyboy meet Cherry

What is the drive-in theater (Nightly Double)

300

Attractive, like a Greek God. Had a horse named Mickey Mouse.

Who is Sodapop

300

What is the difference between Tim Shepard's gang and the Greasers?

Tim Shepard's gang was organized with 1 leader. The Greasers were just a group of guys that hung out and were more like a family.

400

Oldest of the Curtis brothers; serious, determined

Who is Darry Curtis

400

"They had scared him [Johnny] that much. He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body..."

Who is Ponyboy

400

Three things Dallas gives the boys when they run away.

1. a heater

2. dry clothing

3. a plan/hideout spot

400

The Soc that "befriends" Ponyboy at the end of the novel.

Who is Randy

400

What did Johnny leave behind for Ponyboy after he died?

A note inside his copy of Gone with the Wind

500

A wise-cracker, real name is Keith Matthews

Who is Two-Bit

500

"The first thing I knew, I was telling her about Micky Mouse, Soda's horse. Soda had this buckskin horse, only it wasn't his. It belonged to a guy who kept it at the stables where Soda worked. Mickey Mouse was Soda's horse, though."

Who is Ponyboy

500

What reason does Ponyboy give for Dally wanting to die?

Johnny was his best friend, when he died Dally had nothing.

500

Greaser girlfriend, that moves to Florida.

Who is Sandy (Soda's girlfriend)

500
How did Dally die? Why?

Dally was shot and killed by the cops, for aiming a [unload] heater at them.